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Synthesis: What is Maturity?

This synthesis is only understandable if you have already studied the preceding questions.

Cognitive Maturity

Ability to behave well within a constructive group. Individuals tend to find themselves at an intermediate level between the extremes described in the table below.

Level of cognitive maturity ₁

Objective

Natural mode of action

Relationship with facts

Ability to practice problem solving

Long-term effect produced by cognitive dissonance ₈

Pathological ₁

Social ambition ₂Individual happiness ₃

Generalized nepotism ₂To pretend ₄

Rhetoric prevails ₆

Incapable ₁

BeliefsSelf-deception ₈

Immature ₁

If assisted ₁

Mature ₁

Collective happiness ₃

Problem solving ₅Sincerity

Respectful of facts ₇

Natural, informal ₁

Wisdom

Emotional Maturity

Ability to manage one's own omnipotence as well as others' aggressions. Again, individuals tend to be at an intermediate level.

Level of emotional maturity

Behavior toward rules and social conventions

Child

Respects social rules only to the extent of not being seen or caught.

Adolescent

Respects social rules spontaneously ... even when they are clearly contrary to facts and morality.

Adult ₉

Morality and facts prevail over rules and social conventions.
Capable of confronting a group when it denies the facts.

 

Questions to refer to for better understanding of the two tables above:

₁ Tell me how you make decisions, and I'll tell you who you are

₂ What are the consequences of social ambition? The concept of generalized nepotism.

₃ What is the purpose of life?

₄ What is difficult to overcome to succeed in life?

₅ What are the conditions for producing serious reasoning? Problem solving.

₆ Why do humans reason so often incorrectly?

₇ What should one do to be a good person?

₈ What is cognitive dissonance?

₉ What is an adult?

 

The method proposed to progress in terms of maturity is described in the question 'How to succeed in life?'.